Interesting Links for 10-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit

(tags: antidepressants viaSwampers )

Killing Eve review – dazzling thriller from Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge

(tags: review tv )

Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘I felt strongly there was no such thing as a slut’

(tags: writing sex tv movies feminism women )

Antidepressant use in pregnancy can affect babies’ brain development

(tags: antidepressants babies brain )

Samin Nosrat's 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook

(tags: cooking books review )

Iceland supermarkets to ban palm oil in all products

(tags: environment iceland shopping )

Apple Now Runs On 100% Green Energy, And Here’s How It Got There

(tags: Apple renewables power GoodNews )

The Internet Health Report Diagnoses Life Online

(tags: internet )

Flat-Earthism is what happens when people believe things because they're comforting, rather than because there is evidence for them

(tags: earth lies religion belief )

This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

My own internal version of this is more like training a dog or a horse. You can train them to behave, but there are limits to how much you can starve them into submission before they rebel and throw you off. And you're much better off training them with love and respect than you are beating them with a stick whenever they make a mistake.
(tags: happiness advice psychology )

What is the scope of the Brexit mandate? And when will it be discharged?

(tags: uk europe thefuture )

Comments

[lilysea]

Iceland supermarkets to ban palm oil in all products

When I read this, I thought this meant the WHOLE COUNTRY of Iceland!

But its actually a supermarket chain...

(Iceland is not a chain known to Australians...)

[andrewducker]

Dammit, I should have made that clearer!

[danieldwilliam]

Iceland the supermarket probably has ten times as many customers are there are citizens of Iceland the country.

[drplokta]

Yes, one relatively small British supermarket chain banning palm oil is a much bigger deal than if the whole country of Iceland were to do so. Because Iceland has about the same population as Nottingham.

[agoodwinsmith]

But Iceland The Country has a population about the size of Saskatoon - one third of a million people, ish.

(Drat, hit play tooo soon.)

It's nice that our interest in ITC means that anything they do hits the news and we all feel encouraged that a Whole Country can get its act in gear.

[armiphlage]

Same confusion here!

This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

[jack]

Yeah, that advice is really applicable to me. Alas, I keep backsliding, and it feels like cheating or minimising my mistakes to be less hard on myself, even when that would actually be better! It's like my brain *expects* to be judged by people for doing the right thing, and chooses to keep doing the wrong thing instead, even when everyone else is saying "it's ok to be nice to yourself".

Re: This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

[andrewducker]

Your brain is doing the wrong thing. Judge it harshly for that.

Re: This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

[jack]

Huh. That's actually a really good idea. I found myself getting a lot better when I realised I might set a bad example for other people (especially the children) when I wasn't able to stop bad habits for my sake. Lets see if that goes anywhere :)

Re: This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

[andrewducker]

Also, that sounds exactly like internalized oppression to me.

Give your brain a hug, and tell it it's ok for it to relax a bit.

Re: This is a fairly fundamental piece of understanding towards a better, happier, life

[jack]

It's funny. I know many people whose minds have had so much worse treatment than mine. But sometimes I show up with seemingly similar problems, despite not having any of things I would expect to cause it. Like, sometimes I cringe, which you might expect came from being suppressed for speaking up or being constantly criticised -- but I don't think I was[1]. Or I feel like I will always fail -- but I don't think I was massively discouraged in anything. I wonder if it's something like, I was just really oversensitive to anything negative, and that made me give up on things really quickly. (And *hugs*, thank you.)

[1] I mean, I was kind of lonely at school, but I don't think unusually so for people I know.

[agoodwinsmith]

Oh ... now I need to name my little rat. Poor little thing.[1]

[1] - I remember taking my first Psych class in college, and we were shown a black and white film (yes, it was on a reel) about operant conditioning and whatnot, and it showed poor little rats, each stuck in a two foot cube plexiglass box with the whole floor a metal plate which administered shocks to the rat. There was no safe place on the floor, no ledges, no protrusions to grab and hang from. Nothing. The film showed the rats being shocked and shocked and shocked. The rats were probably dead long before I saw the film, but my heart still hurts for those (and all the experimental) rats.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I agree. Poor things.

Did you choose a name for yours?

[agoodwinsmith]

Well, yes. But it's like choosing a name for the craft - it's a private thing. :)

Thank you for asking about her, though - I had forgotten this useful approach.

[agoodwinsmith]

PS - I used that this evening in a "there there name-rat, you did the best you could" when one of those dreadful *moments of shame* reels was playing in my head - and it worked very well. Seriously: thank you for reminding me.

[andrewducker]

Oh that is awesome. In really glad.